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In article <2770008@hparc0.HP.COM> dak@hparc0.HP.COM (Dave Kruger) writes:
>/ hparc0:comp.windows.ms / <YTHPRGDB@MTUS5.BITNET> /  7:15 am  Dec 29, 1990 /
>> Is there any way to change the WFW default document directory?  I want
>> documents to automatically go into the C:\DOCUMENT directory.
>
>This seems convoluted to me (especially if, as someone else has mentioned, a
>simple "ChDir C:\DOCUMENT" statement in the AutoExec macro works), but I use it
>and it works well.  Thanks to the kind person who suggested it.

Umm.. I think that was me.. And, you're very welcome...

>STICK THE BOOTS IN FLAG: ON
>
>I can guess what the above commands do, but don't know for sure.  To know this,
>I would have to buy the "Microsoft Word for Windows Technical Reference".  If
>*that* book is as atrocious as the rest of the W4W documentation (and Microsoft
>documentation in general) it would be a great waste of money.  Fair Dinkum,
>I've never seen such hopeless documentation as that which comes with W4W.

I just have to add my two cents to this... I've complained about this
before.. but what the heck...

I upgraded from Word 5.0 to WfW windows the day I received the upgrade
notice. When I received my upgrade package, I was disgusted to find that
Microsoft had unbundled the hardcopy macro language reference guide (I much
later found that they did include a file with the macro reference guide
contents in it though) and wanted another $22.95 for it (why didn't they
just have that option on the original upgrade form????).

Worse, when I recieved the macro language manual (a poorly photocopied
set of pages in a three ring binder), it was nearly useless. While it
listed all the commands, it had very few examples of the functions/commands
unique to WordBASIC.

I have never become comfortable with WordBASIC and am dead-certain I am
not even coming close to using WfW to its fullest potential. This is a
shame since WordBASIC appears to be a powerful tool but I just can't spend
the time going through the gawd-awful reference manual that Microsoft
provided me. Heck, GNU EMACS Lisp is easier to figure out and use than
WordBASIC (given the documentation Microsoft provides)....todd
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